Bow

17002

From: Western Sudan Region

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 17002
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Senufo (uncertain)
Provenience Western Sudan Region
Section African
Materials Fiber | Wood
Description

Crooked stave of jointed wood. Bamboo-string; for mode of attachment, see Leakey, Jo. Anthr. Inst. LVI (1926), pp. 260-261, fig. 1(AI), and pl. XXXI, 2; also Frobenius, Zeitschr.f. Ethn. XLI (1909), pp. 773-774; XXXIX, pp. 326-328; and Atlas Africanus, Part IV, text to B1. 22-24, fig. 14. The latter resembles this specimen most closely.

Length 143 cm
Credit Line Gift of Robert H. Lamborn, 1893

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